From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265714AbUATUR7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:17:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265736AbUATUR7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:17:59 -0500 Received: from kiy.wanderer.org ([195.218.87.138]:64264 "EHLO kiy.wanderer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265714AbUATUR6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: <400D8CF3.6080504@tv.debian.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 22:17:55 +0200 From: Tommi Virtanen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Samwel Cc: Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Noise with 2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 ) References: <1073488405.850.35.camel@zeus> <4003F998.4020104@tv.debian.net> <200401201336.54113.bart@samwel.tk> In-Reply-To: <200401201336.54113.bart@samwel.tk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bart Samwel wrote: >>>When the 2.6.0 inits in my laptop it becomes reaaallyyy noisy. >>>Why ? >>If it's the fans, it's the BIOS reading CPU temperature of 85 C, >>which is not true. It seems a Fn-Z press resets this reading to >>sane values. You can look at the temperature reading and fan >>state with i8kutils. >> >>Atleast that's what a Dell Latitude C640 that I had did. > Might it be that the hardware reports 85 F instead of 85 C maybe? That's about > (85-32)*0.55 = about 29 C, which may be more realistic when you're just > booting it up. :) Only if it switches between C and F at runtime. Normal readings when loaded were 55-65, IIRC.